A real find. Maybe the best wit goes into the titles, like The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl. The wit in the rhyming texts sometimes gets lost in particulars unknown to us. The Confiding Peasant and the ...

I will violate my own rules to keep this extra copy, unnumbered like the one I was alerted to at Moe's in Berkeley nineteen years ago. It is even more fragile than that copy. One thread out of five holds some pages ...

This is a small (about 3¼ x 5¼) but complete book of La Fontaine's fables. Its unusual feature is its illustrations, printed with a stamp-like quality. The first of these is a full-page frontispiece printed at a ninety ...

Here is the gem of the collection! What a marvelous pair of volumes! Each of the fourteen fables has a two-page illustration printed on only one side of the paper. The best here include: The Swallow and the Small Birds, ...

Here is the gem of the collection! What a marvelous pair of volumes! Each of the fourteen fables has a two-page illustration printed on only one side of the paper. The best here include: The Cock and the Fox, The Monkey ...

Here is a second copy of this book with loose early pages. This large (16½ x 12½) book represents a wonderful find. It brings together the broadsides or posters I have found from Pellerin/Épinal, displayed at ...

A beautiful collection aptly named. The format has square text inserted in a large picture, which often includes two phases or two scenes, human and fabulous. Do not miss the lovely front cover on the good copy. The ...